used todescribeactivities,organizations, etc. that are gettingbiggerveryquickly:Economistsloveto makepredictionsabout thefast-growingeconomiesinEastAsia.(Definition offast-growingfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoffast-growing
fast-growingForfast-growingdeveloping economies, greater outward-orientation holds promise in terms of growth and efficiency.From theCambridge English CorpusThese were alternated withfast-growinglimes to provide protection for the young trees, shade and ornament until the slower growing specimens attained maturity.From theCambridge English CorpusManaged fallows involve the deliberate planting offast-growing, nitrogen-fixing leguminous shrub and tree species for improving soil fertility and nutrient conservation.From theCambridge English CorpusAll these characteristics of gaps are likely to favour the establishment offast-growingalien plants requiring high levels of resources.From theCambridge English CorpusThefast-growingindustry was not one of large factories but rather of small semispecialized machine shops, all of which were called "blacksmiths" in the census.From theCambridge English CorpusThe radical reform of 1973, compounded by these factors, created afast-growingvested interest in the welfare sector.From theCambridge English CorpusThis is particularly so in regions with dense andfast-growinghuman populations, where expanding settlements, crops and livestock are displacing wildlife at an ever-increasing rate.From theCambridge English CorpusThe most demanding challenge will probably be to live in a world with afast-growingpopulation.From theCambridge English CorpusThe company's main focus is on thefast-growingforestry market, which already demands more than eight billion tree seedlings a year.From theCambridge English CorpusWe are carefully poring over every intellectual-property text we can find so that we can strengthen the coverage in thisfast-growingfield.From theCambridge English CorpusA short period without elephant browsing after fire would therefore allow thefast-growingshrub to recover and to spread extensively.From theCambridge English CorpusWe note that more slow-growing thanfast-growingorganisms were identified in the sputa.From theCambridge English CorpusI expected the morefast-growing, small-seeded, light-demanding species to respond with enhanced growth, and the more large-seeded, shadetolerant species to respond with luxury consumption.From theCambridge English CorpusThis suggests that thefast-growingend of actin filaments is progressively bound by some cellular components and reaches a new, and stable, organisation.From theCambridge English CorpusThis volume is an excellent contribution to thefast-growingarea of contrastive rhetoric as applied to academic discourse.From theCambridge English CorpusThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/fast-growing##
